Mark’s illness puts a damper on Jeremy’s shroom party.
- “This is bullshit!” is said by multiple characters throughout this episode. It’s slowly becoming a very common line. The funniest is, of course, Super Hans’, when he freaks out in the washroom and kicks the door out.
- “Oh for God’s sake!” and its variants also show up about three times. It’s a great line, particularly since when Jeremy says it, his indignation is almost never warranted, whereas Mark’s is.
- Super Hans’ father made alcohol at home, and Hans was forced to watch over the still.
- The guy playing the carpenter, is, again, just the best working-class casting ever. Like I said, at this point I’m starting to wonder if the country isn’t just entirely full of these people, making their casting on TV shows incredibly common.
- Johnson comes to rescue Mark from his locked room. When Jez answers the door, their mutual disdain is apparent. I quite like how that relationship is pretty consistent, if subtle.
- Johnson first meets Big Suze here. And by “meets,” I mean that they’re in the same shot for about four seconds, and they don’t exchange any dialogue. Tellingly, perhaps, Johnson gives her a look-over. I vaguely recall that when he later makes his “indecent proposal” to Jeremy, it’s as if he’s laid eyes on her for the first time. But there is definitely something in that look. Check it out yourself!
- The pooing scene at the end is really a highlight. The show almost never does humour like that (and I don’t generally think it’s the greatest), but something about it works here; probably Super Hans, Johnson and Jeremy’s reactions.
-Mark mentions his sister, Sarah, by name. He had previously alluded to her in the very first episode, saying that she was a lawyer. She finally shows up in the next episode, and her character is entirely consistent with what Mark had set up before.
I wouldn’t normally be blown away that the show follows its own continuity, if not for the fact that: 1) almost no other shows bother keeping track of this stuff, and 2) some of these little mentions are just one-off lines that almost nobody would remember, particularly the bit about her being a lawyer.
"Doesn't sound normal. Doesn't smell normal."
Quotes (quite a few of them this time):
- Jez: “If people only did what they wanted, everybody would spend all day sitting on the carpet watching the poker channel and wanking, and eating those expensive German biscuits. Probably.”
- Jez, feigning outrage at discovering that Super Hans is eating out some girl in Mark’s bed: “They didn’t go in there, did they? Oh, that is too much. I’m annoyed now.”
- Mark, on the perils of getting too chummy with contractors in your home: “You have to maintain the barrier, or they’ll retune your radio to a commercial station.”
- Jez, on his afternoon: “To him it looks like I’ve done literally nothing since lunch. Well, the washing up isn’t nothing, mate, and I’m going to be doing that any bloody minute!”
-Jez, pleased with himself: “God, look at me talking with a builder like we’re both on the same level.”
- Mark, after learning that a strike in
- Jez, after purposely giving Mark too much Nyquil: “It’s not like I’m going to rape him. I could rape him. I’m not going to rape him.”
- Jez: “I almost certainly haven’t killed him.”
- Super Hans’ date at the shroom party: “Before I did shrooms, I was stuck at HSBC doing the 9 to 5.”
Super Hans, supportively: “Yeah, and now you’ve got your room in the centre and you’re making your masks.”
- Mark: “Locked out of a party in my own home! It’s Sarah’s 18th all over again!”
- The Sick Man of
- Rick, from “The Young Ones”: Wikipedia tells me that “The Young Ones” was a 1982 sitcom with “anarchic, offbeat humour.” Rick was himself “a pompous, would-be anarchist.”
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